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Vice Quotes by William Hazlitt
- It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
- Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
- A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove…
- Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
- Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
- The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
- When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from…
- Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite…
- The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
- There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
More Vice Quotes
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. — Abu Bakr
- Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac
- Fast cars are my only vice. — Michael Bay
- Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest… — Dirk Benedict
- Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally. — Joe Biden
- Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of… — Joe Biden
- What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on… — Ambrose Bierce
- The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art… — William Blake
- Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. — Napoleon Bonaparte